COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN NEPAL
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
IN NEPAL
Bikesh Yadav
The Community:
A community is a group of people, who live in a geographical area and have
interests in each other for the purpose of making a living. It is a farm
of social organization existing between the family and state.A community, while
in itself consisting of several parts, is also a part of a larger social
system. It is a dynamic social unit which is subject to change of internal or
external origin.Some of the important characteristics of the community are;
1. Communities are close-knit
2. Their customs are interrelated
3. These communities are complexes of sub-group relationship and
4. There is a discernible leadership within the community.
Development:
The term development connotes growth
or maturation. It implies gradual and sequential phases of change.By
understanding the above terms, we can say that community development programmes
means a programme for gradual change in a group of people living in a
geographical area and have interest in each other for the purpose of making a
living.
Concepts of Community Development:
1. Community development is a movement designed to promote better living for
the whole community with the active participation and on the initiative of the
community.
2. Community development is a
balanced programme for stimulating the local potential for growth in every
direction. Its promise is of reciprocal advance in both wealth and wealth
and welfare, not on the basis of outside charity but by building on the latent
vitality of the beneficiaries themselves with the minimum of outside aid.
3. Community development is
technically aided and locally organized self help.
4. The term community development
has come into international usage to denote the process by which the efforts of
the people themselves are united with those the governmental authorities to
improve the economic social and cultural conditions of the communities, to
integrate these communities into the life of the nation and enable them to
contribute fully to national progress.
5. Community development is the term
used to describe the technique which many governments have adopted to reach
their village people and to make more effective use of local initiative and
energy for increased production and better living standards.
6. Community development is a
process of social action in which the people of a community organize themselves
for planning and action, define their needs and problems.
Community development has now set
the pattern for the development of the rural people and the rural areas.
The objectives of development and the new approach it makes to the solution of
the problem of rural reconstruction, the comprehensive nature of the programme
that it is promoting. The approach to the programme is two fold,
educational and organizational. The rural people are to be educated in the
art of better living, for bringing about a change in their attitude, for
breaking away from primitive methods of production, unhygienic says of living
based on tradition and for the adopting of progressive ways based on science
and technology.
Before developing a community we
need to focus on its process. Without knowing it we cannot develop a good
community.The process of community development can be a difficult, time
consuming,and costly job. Community residents often are more concerned with
daily task than thinking about , and coming up with a vision of their community
future. The process of community development can be as important as its
product. Therefore for the long run, both process and outcomes are essential
parts of community development. Me need to focus on three areas i.e a)
community organizing, b) community visioning and planning, and c)evaluation and
monitoring.
Community development programme in
Nepal
Nepal is one of the least developed
countries in the world. Population growth, under employment, geographical
barriers and poverty are some of the main constraints for community
development, especially in the remote hilly and rural areas community. To
improve living standards of community people in the remote area of far western,
mid western, western, central and eastern parts of Nepal and contribute to
overall community development of the area as well as Community Development
Programme (CDP) Nepal is given first priority to center region and far
western’s remote communities and willing to assist financial support from
national and international donor agencies and local government.
History
CDP Nepal is a non-profit And
non-governmental and its solidarity association for pure community development
work’s organization. It was established in 2006 in remote community as CBO, but
it was registered in 5th February 2011 by a group of community development
professionals in Lalitpur District Administration Office with the aims to
empower vulnerable, poor and disadvantaged populations and especially focusing
to women and children in remote villages and enable community to be
self-reliant for the future. The CDP is designed to create conditions of
economic and social progress for remote community with its active
participation, transparency, responsiveness and fullest reliance upon the
community initiative for helping a community strengthen and develop itself. The
CDP believes that people who live in community, share their best ideas,
relationships, new learning, innovation, best practices, present community issues,
available local resources, present needs identify and common hardships for
community development activities.
OBJECTIVES:
To raise awareness build up of
deprived community children and women as well as disable children
To support the development of the
education sector in the deprived community children and women
To improve the health status of the
deprived community disable, children and women
To strengthen and support health
facilities with construction work to provide quality services
To raise awareness of environment
and child right protection in the deprived communities
To impact national development by
raising awareness of education, health, livelihood activities in community
level
Approaches
- Partnership
- Social inclusion
- Right based
- Accountability and transparency
- Participatory
- People centered
For example, Nepal Red Cross Society
has been implementing Community Development Programme (CDP) since 1983. At
first it focused its activities on health services promotion. Letter on the
Society expanded CD projects with the objective of meeting basic needs of the
people. Recently, it focuses on reduction of socio-economic vulnerability of
community people. So far CDP has been implemented in 43 districts with
different approaches and among them 31 districts have been already phased out.
At present CDP is being implemented in 12 districts.
It provides such programme like non
formal education, drinking water health and sanitation, self help,
organizational development and capacity building and son on.
Finally in the process of developing
we also need to see the various forms of community capital such as human
capital, social capital, physical, financial, and environment.
Refrences
http://www.agriinfo.in
http://www.nrcs.org/program/community-development-programme
Asset building and community
development-Gary Paul Green, Anna Haines (chap-3 pg.34)
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